system will be for gaming (hl2, bf2, guild wars) and homework. budget is only $800 MAX ($700 would be good though) for the entire thing (speakers, monitor, keyboard mouse) so the best processor availible in that budget is a 3000. please dont reccommend a 3200, as my friend cant afford. must be from newegg.com Monitor and harddrive ($150 total) are purchased locally) everything else is open to sugguestions (within the same price range. thanks! LITE-ON Black IDE DVD Burner Model SOHW-1693S Black - Retail 47.99 ATRIX CSCI-L8005-C43 Black/Silver Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case 400W Power Supply - Retail 44.99 MSI K8N Neo4-F Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail 86.00 eVGA 128-P2-N368-TX Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail 166.00 CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT400 - Retail 80.99 Update AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3000BPBOX - Retail 146.00
You'll probably end up saving a bit of cash from that too-the PCI Expres versions of 6600s are cheaper.
Your gonna need a new powersupply too as that crap one that comes with that case wont cut it. Trust me. And I would say get either a BFG or MSI 6600GT because 1) they are better than eVGA (shudders at the name evga) and 2) they can overclock nicely. Much worth the couple of extra dollars! And who's it for?
dont really play on overclocking anything, and i think well give power supply a try and see what happens. will change to a pny? (any good) graphics card. what r systems of underpowered system?
i would reccomend the NEC dual layer dvdrw its had spiffing reviews and a mucher lesser price than that!! you should find it about £31 inc. vat in various places.
